Barriers and Potential Solutions in Diabetic Care

LITERATURE REVIEW

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................3
Theme 1: Barriers and Potential Solutions of safer heaklthcare to Diabetic Patients.................3
Theme 2: Role of nursing and changes or opportunities in this field..........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
MAIN BODY
BACKGROUND
LITERATURE REVIEW
Topic: To examine the service user experience and establish potential for improvement in
Diabetic Care Plan.
Theme 1: Barriers and Potential Solutions of safer heaklthcare to Diabetic Patients
Authors, Rousseau, Beauchesne, Naud, Leblond, Cossette, Lanthier & Bernier (2014),
conducted a qualitative study to analyse the practices adopted and implemented by the
physicians, nurses and pharmacists so that a focus group interview could be conducted that
would help in determining that which practices professionals working in the diabetic care should
actually adopt so that the insulin that is administered in the patients is done at a monitored and
controlled level. This research paper aimed at determining what are the service levels that need
to be adopted by such medical professionals while giving insulin medication to the diabetic
patients. For this purpose, the researcher formulated five focus groups that comprised of 31
professionals. In the discussion that ensued, the researchers were able to determine some
common problems that occurred while giving treatment to the diabetic patients and the service
provided care takers. These involved lack of adequate information amongst the healthcare
professionals regarding the insulin administration and the levels or quantities that are to be
injected in the patient with higher sugar levels. Another major problem was mismanagement of
the insulin therapy and lastly another internal mishap amongst the care takers was that there was
lack of any adequate communication between the personnel which was employed to work in
different shifts. This was determined as a major objective that the personnel of Centre
Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), on which the research was conducted, should
incorporate in their service improvement plan for diabetic patients.
The researcher of the research paper, Alotaibi, Gholizadeh, Al‐Ganmi & Perry
(2018). , conducted a study on identification and exploration of those factors that could influence
the care taking practices adopted by the nurses while attending to the patients suffering with
diabetes. A descriptive qualitative research design as adopted by the researcher where they
recruited 16 nurses that were working in different areas at hospital in Saudi Arabia. In order to